Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

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Just fedora? Not vidora or something like that? Hey, if you guys end up calling your distro vidora, I want credit. :-)

I look at the debate over whether it is better to have a distro for the blind or to work on improving mainstream distros like the debate over barley versus wheat beers. Personally, I prefer barley beers over any and all wheat beers. But if someone wants to brew a wheat beer, it's fine with me and I'd even help out if they asked. It's a matter of good and better. In other words, my opinion is that even if you think it would be better if these developers spent their time on mainstream distros, we should all still recognize that what they are doing is really helpful. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

On 04/18/2017 08:45 AM, Jude dDaShiell wrote:
Last i read, both sonargnulinux and vinux were in the process of merging
into Fedora and that first release was supposed to have happened
sometime in April 2017 and would be called Fedora 26.0.  What has
happened since then I do not now know.

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On Apr 18, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Sorry for the late reply, but see comments below.

On 3/16/2017 3:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
Eric Oyen wrote:

...we, as a community, don't have an actual unified distro
to call our own. Sure, Vinux is a decent distro, but it's
lacking a lot of useful features outside of accessibility.

OK, but why do we, as a community, need a special distro? Yes, it's free
software, so there is certainly nothing stopping you as long as you realize
it's your pet distro along with the about 300 others on distrowatch.com
<http://distrowatch.com>. I
would much rather have a popular, mainstream distro which includes great
accessibility like Debian and derivatives.


I'm not sure how things are at present, but in the past,
Debian has shown some commitment to supporting
accessibility[1], including at the installer level[2].

Yes, Debian still supports accessibility. Every alpha release of D-I has
accessibility features and fixes.


This is not the same as a special-purpose distribution, and
I think the pages were written some time ago. Still I would
think that some effort would be worthwhile, and would
benefit all Debian derivatives, which could include
a accessbility-centric distribution.

1. https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
2. https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility

These pages should be fairly current and are often updated by Debian
developers like Samuel Thibault.

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